We've all heard some version of the story; but just for overkill...
An elderly Cherokee Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life...
He said to them, "A fight is going on inside me, it is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves.
One wolf is evil -- he is fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, competition, superiority, and ego.
The other is good---he is joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.
This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person, too."
They thought about it for a minute and then one child asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?"
The old Cherokee simply replied: "The one you feed".
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Considering the long hiatus in writing, this may be rough... This should be a brief acknowledgment of appetite, and the terrible damage it can bring.
The more we consume of something, unless it is truly good, it will not satisfy. Typically we will soon be hungry for more of the very thing that didn't satisfy before. It's the nature of addiction. The downward spiral of humanity to depravity... And many of us live with a black hole of depravity buried, somewhere not so deep, beneath the illusion we project to the world around us.
I am not so interested in the reality of our depravity, nor the counter-intuitive truth that appetite begets appetite. I am; however, interested in why we chose to feed the wolf that we know is evil. I suspect, that, unfortunately, it is altogether human to think we know better than we're told, and to give in to curiosity.
